How does Comedy Central get away with cursing without being censored?!
 

Watching it now i just heard titties, ass, dick, mother fucker all in like 2 minutes:1orglaugh

How can they get away with that on cable tv?

Ask HBO.

They've been doing it for like a year now. The FCC is actually threatening to crack down on cable and satellite radio.

HBO is not cable.

Lol! WTF is it then?

When I was 13 I got cable it came with HBO before then I did not have access to HBO,

Its a premium channel dumb fuck:321GFY

Yikes!

It's not a publicly accessible channel.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe networks are allowed to use most profanity within context, but choose not to because of sponsor "moral" issues. I'm not sure though.

I do know Comedy Central is part of a premium package for cable/sattelite and not included in basic service, so that might be why also.

paid subscription vs an "over the air" free channel... meaning any TV channel that's free with an antanae gets far more strict regulations.

haha im watching queens of comedy aswell

funny shit


i asked my girl if she knew why they could do it ( she used to work for a cable company ) and she said as long as it is past 10:30 with proper ratings they can use any language they want on cable

In some areas HBO is included in Basic service and with direct hookups. So it is possible.

Hmm, never heard of that. I stand corrected.

Still on cable moron. If not I guess they better give back those CABLE ACE Awards then.

if their advertisers don't care they have the green light to do whatever they like after 11pm i believe.

they can get away with it after 1am
i asked about this awhile ago when they played the southpark movie uncensored

You can pay for the spice and playboy channels on cable also.

Money talks, in a sense. If you pay to hear profanity, who's gonna stop ya?

There are just some tv networks that are not as sensitive as the other networks are in regards with foul words. UNFORTUNATELY!!!:(

After 10pm the rules change

And YOU are in the adult biz?

go comedy central, i love their hidden stash movies.

Comedy Central shows this programming after 11 pm on the west coast (Pacific Time Zone)....mighty late in ETZ. Anything after this time period is not too scrutinized (within standard reasoning naturally?so they aint gonna show porn) since they believe that all children are in bed by then.

The double standards really do suck. In Saving private Ryan they said "fuck" 28 times on prime time.

Can imagine some 13 year old jerking off to the nude scenes in Schindler's List?:Graucho :(

They can threaten all they want but they do not have the authority to do it unless new laws are passed. The FCC is not allowed to regulate cable TV.

That's bullshit. HBO is a subscription service and they don't get away their service for free.

money money money MOOOOONEY!

They've said "bullshit" on NYPD Blue on ABC.

that's what I was thinking

The FCC only has the authority to regulate the public airwaves. That's only the old networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, etc - stuff anyone can get for free over an antenna. Those channels (and radio) operate on limited available frequencies and permission to broadcast is granted by the government. That's why they must comply with government rules or risk having their license taken away. Cable TV enters your home via privately owned underground networks, and therefore is not subject to regulation. The only censorship on any cable channel (like Comedy Central) is voluntary self-censhorhip so as not to offend advertisers or get dropped from the private providers packages (Comcast, COX, etc) There is no legal difference between Comedy Central and HBO. There are no laws about time of day or anything like that for cable TV. It's totally up to the private companies what they show. If a regular cable channel wanted to run hardcore porn and beheadings 24/7, there's nothing the FCC could do about it. Yes, some christian groups are trying to influence legislation to gain control over media they have no rational right to, but that's unlikely to be successful because the government cannot make the same arguements against privately owned networks people must pay to subscribe to.

Can this be true? Someone has posted on GFY and they are not a retard?